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

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.