Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

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

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.