Metaphysical Speculation Is About As Pointless As

Most Of My Life I Have Needed More Time To Be On My Own.

What A Child Doesn't Receive He Can Seldom Later Give.

Publishers Don't Nurse You; They Buy And Sell You.

Generosity Is A Virtue For Individuals, Not Governments. When Governments Are Generous It Is With Other People’s Money, Other People’s Safety, Other People’s Future.

He Didn't Want Her; He Wanted Me. Well, You Know How It Is." Dalgliesh Did Know. This, After All, Was The Commonest, The Most Banal Of Personal Tragedies. You Loved Someone. They Didn't Love You. Worse Still, In Defiance Of Their Own Best Interests And To The Destruction Of Your Peace, They Loved Another. What Would Half The World's Poets And Novelists Do Without This Universal Tragicomedy?