I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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