People see what they expect to see.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.

power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.