Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-juncti...
Or an amicable pair, said Sam. Sorry? In math, that’s what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pyth...
His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
Sorry? said Dalziel turning. What's that you said?He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear.If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can'...
Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on
For the first time, she felt she’d laid a glove on Doll Trapp. ‘Well, you really are full of surprises,’ she said. ‘Interesting theory. I’d be careful who you share it with. Now, where was I?’ That
He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.
Middlefield.
A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence
Twelve strangers, he interrupted, twelve citizens picked off the street. In this world we're unfortunate to live in, and especially in this septic isle we live on,where squalid politicians conspire wi...
The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever
Tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation.
Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.