You could probably say that it is equivalent to a detective looking for a thief ....You look for clues and you follow the clues, many of which are wrong.

To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton]

To me, it's the equivalent of if you cleaned out your basement or garage. We're going through looking to see what's in our closets, what's in our warehouses, what's in our storerooms -- doing a complete inventory of our stuff.

To me, it's the equivalent of if you cleaned out your basement or garage. We're going through looking to see what's in our closets, what's in our warehouses, what's in our storerooms - doing a complete inventory of our stuff.

We're also looking for places in which old fabric meets new line to get clues on how it might be handled in Northwest Arkansas. We realize our work at the university is speculative in that sense. We're not providing designs. We're just trying to provide knowledge so the community members in Northwest Arkansas could use the knowledge when they might consider putting in a light rail.

If somebody is an experienced car thief and they want to steal your car, they're probably going to get it. The key is to make your car more difficult to steal than someone else's.