Ruth

“Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can’t have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not ‘concerned citizens’, it’s our responsibility and ours alone,” McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them."

[Life magazine, December 10, 1965]”
― Rex Stout

“Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar