Margery Allingham

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

The only thing I command is respect.