I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement