You Get A Wonderful View From The

... When Your Name Is Really And Truly Percy Blakeney, Pronounced 'black-knee', And You Still Have Bad Acne In Your Twenties, You Accept Pimple As A Nickname And Are Grateful That It Wasn't Anything Worse.

There Isn't A Way Things Should Be. There's Just What Happens, And What We Do.

All Holy Piety In Public, And All Peeled Grapes And Self-indulgence In Private.

The Real World Was Far Too Real To Leave Neat Little Hints. It Was Full Of Too Many Things. It Wasn't By Eliminating The Impossible That You Got To The Truth, However Improbable; It Was By The Much Harder Process Of Eliminating The Possibilities.

Real Children Do Not Go Hoppity Skip Unless They Are On Drugs.