If All Power Corrupts, Then A Doctor,

The Greatest Mystery Of All Is The Human Heart.

He Didn't Want Her; He Wanted Me. Well, You Know How It Is." Dalgliesh Did Know. This, After All, Was The Commonest, The Most Banal Of Personal Tragedies. You Loved Someone. They Didn't Love You. Worse Still, In Defiance Of Their Own Best Interests And To The Destruction Of Your Peace, They Loved Another. What Would Half The World's Poets And Novelists Do Without This Universal Tragicomedy?

What The Detective Story Is About Is Not Murder But The Restoration Of Order.

Crime Fiction Confirms Our Belief, Despite Some Evidence To The Contrary, That We Live In A Rational, Comprehensible, And Moral Universe.

[my Father And His Friends] Believed In Equality For Women Without Troubling To Acquire The Basic Domestic Skills Which Would Have Made That Equality Possible.