No innocent person ever has an alibi.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.