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.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?