I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.