You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Life's greatest setbacks reveal life's biggest opportunities.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.