Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in t...
I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card.
There’s a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They’re vain, they crave the power over others they t...
The habit of loving is definitely one to be cultivated.
As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.
Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.
Kill. He’s a man obsessed and he’s determined to
You've always been handy with a knife, Mother
You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked.
You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder.
Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power’ Romeo and Juliet, II, iii
We all make mistakes, Carol. Sometimes they're more expensive than others. But I don't deserve to lose you,' he said, spreading his hands in appeal.
To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making.
They think of policemen as they do of Labradors – noble, loyal, good with children, man’s protector and friend. In
She watched his pale, square hands on the map, the short almost stubby fingers, with their neatly trimmed nails and a sparse scattering of fine black hairs on the bottom section of each finger. Appall...
Louring
You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.
What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them,
The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.
It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fictio...