He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.