Clara

“They are such silly letters, too.'

'Have you—er—had any yourself?'

I was a little diffident of asking, but Mrs. Dane Calthrop replied perfectly naturally, her eyes opening a little wider.

'Oh yes, two—no, three. I forget exactly what they said. Something very silly about Caleb and the schoolmistress, I think. Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He schoolmistress I think. Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky, being a clergyman.'

'Quite' I said. 'Oh quite.'

'Caleb would have been a saint,' said Mrs. Dane Calthrop, 'if he hadn't been just a little too intellectual.”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

“I have often asked myself what I would do if a flying saucer, turning out to be a craft from outerspace, landed in my backyard and its occupants emerged. I think that I would go out to meet them, being very careful to make no move they could interpret as hostile, fairly confident that as two intelligent species we could find a common ground of acceptance.”
― Clifford Simak

“To me that ineffectual little scholar, having trouble getting his magic sword in and out of the scabbard, was much more believable and sympathetic, and thus easier to write about, than would have been the standard brawny-fisted swordsman, for whom I'd felt slight empathy.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak

“I often tell my friends that I write to reach people who are like me. If you find this book fun to read, or even meaningful, you are like me, at least in that particular way. I may never know who you are, but I firmly believe that you are out there.”
― Sung-Il Kim, Blood of the Old Kings