Now a days, everyone is either a critic or a great advisor. Yet when critics get criticized they can't handle it and when advisors encounter a problem they have no idea what to do so seek an advisor.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection."
"But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there.

Bagaimanapun juga sifatnya, ulasan-ulasan itu selalu bisa berguna, kecuali ulasan yang hanya berdasarkan kebencian yang meluap, tanpa alasan yang kena. Misalnya ada seseorang yang menyatakan bahwa ceritaku buruk, buruk sekali dan memalukan. Kalau hal itu dikatakan tanpa alasan-alasan, maka tidak perlu diacuhkan.

Kalau yang memuji itu teman baik, itu biasa. Kalau yang mencela itu musuh, juga biasa. Tapi kalau yang memuji itu musuh, dan yang mencela itu kawan, itu menyebabkan saya berpikir-pikir.