I Write Every Day When I'm At

For Me, It's Always Been The Initial Business - Just Getting A Word Down, Any Words Down, On A Blank Piece Of Paper. Once I've Done That, I'm Away. Beginning Is One Half Of The Deed.

There Are Terrible Disasters And Tragedies And Miseries All Over The Place, In Places Like Africa With The Atrocities In Darfur, India Until Recently, And China. So Many Of Them Have Been Brought To Our Notice By Television That We've Almost Become Inured To Cruelty And Disasters And Hopelessness In The World. We Don't Seem To Have Made An Awfully Good Job Of Running Things As A Sort Of Planetary Cabinet.

Morse Stared Morosely At The Blotting Paper. "it's Just Not My Sort Of Case, Lewis. I Know It's Not A Very Nice Thing To Say, But I Just Get On Better When We've Got A Body - A Body That Died From Unnatural Causes. That's All I Ask. And We Haven't Got A Body.

I Always Drink At Lunchtime. It Helps My Imagination.

There's Always Time For One More Pint. - Chief Inspector Morse