One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.