That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.