When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.