One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal… — Arthur Conan Doyle

Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

"You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal."