Questions of motive are very difficult in intelligence analysis.
Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.
No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.
There is one basic cause of all effects.
When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial interest.
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
