A really good detective never gets married.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
The more you reason the less you create.
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.
