An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.