The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.