To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  Of Irene  Adler. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 'Scandal in Bohemia'.

'I am inclined to thinkö'said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Valley of Fear, ch.1.

John Clellon Holmes†and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'

-Kerouac,Jack (John)
  Interview in Playboy,  Jun.