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

“He was the only person awake, but he might as well have been alone and dreaming.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It is not enough to say that you have had a hunch. Once written down, most such inklings reveal themselves for what they are: something to be tossed into a wishing well, not into a file.”

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