Elspeth Stewart Quotes & Sayings

A detective is only human. The less of a detective, the more human he is. Henry was not much of a detective, and his human — P.G. Wodehouse

I thought I was growing wings
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the time to step
into the fire
it was deep water.
Eschatology is a word I learned
as a child: the study of Last Things;
facing my mirror - no longer young,
the news - always of death,
the dogs - rising from sleep and clamoring
and howling, howling ...
("Seeing For a Moment") — Denise Levertov

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"
Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled: - and now I like ye better! — Robert Louis Stevenson

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. — Jonathan Kozol

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine

I think of my work as this kind of holy trinity - funny, dirty, sad. It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny. It's really easy to do sad, you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that. It's really hard to get dirty right. — Jill Soloway