To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

Things never come when they are expected.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.