She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.