The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It wouldn't surprise me if he got somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.