"Here dwell together still two men of noteWho never lived and so can never die:How very near they seem, yet how remoteThat age before the world went all awry.But still the game’s afoot for those with e..."
- Vincent Starrett
"I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour."
- Nancy Springer
"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
"In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit, digesting the day's papers, puffing on his long pipe, injecting..."
- Graham Moore
"Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find t..."
"XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense."
- Laurie R. King
"It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand."
- Anthony Horowitz
"You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh."
"Mr.Holmes is another sad work unfortunately."
- Deyth Banger
"No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of..."