marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.