Aristotle

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.