How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brother’s murderer.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.