I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.