If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.