“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“You guessed it! And you say you aren't creative!""We did not guess anythiung. We deduced it from the plethora of data you provided us, both consciously and unconsciously.""And yet you couldn't detect the irony in my enthusiasm.""We detected it. As information, however, it was worthless.”

“Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.”

“I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”

“There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.”

“Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean "love" and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection...There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.”