"A detective is someone who looks for things that don't want to be found."

On the path of science, failure and success are equally important; they are both steps towards truth.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Every book is a journey.

名望是一张会侵蚀面孔的面具。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

The most dangerous myth in fishing is that there will always be more fish.