Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.