You Never Forget The People Who Were

He Didn't Want Her; He Wanted Me. Well, You Know How It Is." Dalgliesh Did Know. This, After All, Was The Commonest, The Most Banal Of Personal Tragedies. You Loved Someone. They Didn't Love You. Worse Still, In Defiance Of Their Own Best Interests And To The Destruction Of Your Peace, They Loved Another. What Would Half The World's Poets And Novelists Do Without This Universal Tragicomedy?

Write What You Need To Write, Not What Is Currently Popular Or What You Think Will Sell.

Youth Goes Caparisoned In Immortality.

Old Age Makes Caricatures Of Us All.

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