What Was So Terrible About Grief Was

I Love The Idea Of Bringing Order Out Of Disorder Which Is What The Mystery Is About. I Like The Way In Which It Affirms The Sanity Of Human Life And Exorcises Irrational Guilts.

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

The Weekend Break Had Begun With The Usual Resentment And Had Continued With Half-repressed Ill Humour. It Was, Of Course, His Fault. He Had Been More Ready To Hurt His Wife's Feelings And Deprive His Daughter Than Inconvenience A Pub Bar Full Of Strangers. He Wished There Could Be One Memory Of His Dead Child Which Wasn't Tainted With Guilt And Regret.

All Fiction Is Largely Autobiographical And Much Autobiography Is, Of Course, Fiction.

What Was So Terrible About Grief Was Not Grief Itself, But That One Got Over It.