“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.”

“The expert detective’s pursuit will go unnoticed, but not because he is unremarkable. Rather, like the suspect’s shadow, he will appear as though he is meant to be there.”

“There is no better way to understand your own motives and dispositions than by finding someone to act as your opposite.”

“Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.”

“All the world's a rube, and he who tries to prove otherwise will be the first to wake onstage, victim of our just ridicule.”

“Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.”

“The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.”