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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Never trust a poet who can drive. Never trust a poet at the wheel. If he can drive, distrust the poems.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

In a speech at Bar Ilan university, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorses the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Arkady was an Investigator of Special Cases, and if a bear running loose in the heart of Moscow was not a special case, he didn't know what was.

You don't have anything new to say, Ethelred, but you carry on writing crime novels. I mean, it's fine. Your readers don't like new stuff. It frightens the shit out of them.

As I suggested before, temporary variables can be a problem. They are only useful within their own routine, and therefore they encourage long, complex routines.

If someone were to come up to you in a dark alley and say, "Psst, wanna see a UML diagram?" that diagram would probably be a class diagram.

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.

be absolved of guilt—not of suspicion. "Which is why I need the murderer

But to be honest, I didn't share these ethical concerns.

Because their fears were so deep, verbal acknowledgment would not suffice. He had to model the behavior.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.

How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.

The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.

Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Christian life, even—depends upon the true understanding of the law and the gospel.