Things never come when they are expected.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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 have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.