Any Visitor To An Historic Country Town

A Nation That Can't Remember Its Dead Will Soon Cease To Be Worth Dying For.

The Most Successful Marriages Were Always Based On Both Partners Feeling That They Had Done Rather Well For Themselves.

Can We Ever Break Free Of The Devices And Desires Of Our Own Hearts? Might Not Our Conscience Be Telling Us What We Most Want To Hear?

To Look Back On One's Life Is To Experience The Capriciousness Of Memory. ... The Past Is Not Static. It Can Be Relived Only In Memory, And Memory Is A Device For Forgetting As Well As Remembering. It, Too, Is Not Immutable. It Rediscovers, Reinvents, Reorganizes. Like A Passage Of Prose It Can Be Revised And Repunctuated. To That Extent, Every Autobiography Is A Work Of Fiction And Every Work Of Fiction An Autobiography.

What The Detective Story Is About Is Not Murder But The Restoration Of Order.