Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.