My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.