I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides