But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.