Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.