Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

You can always win points. Winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

The heart smiles when the soul shines.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

This book fills a much-needed gap.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.