The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.