"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."

"It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all."

"I have always had a great respect for the law. I have always had a great respect for justice."