In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
—Alfred Hitchcock
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it.
—Alice Munro
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
—Napoleon Bonaparte