Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.