Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.