fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!