The past is never dead; it's not even past. This is especially true in detective fiction.

We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

我扮演的每一个角色都教会我一些关于生活和自己的新东西。

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear.

You can't manage what you don't measure, and you can't improve what you don't manage.