Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

there is evil everywhere under the sun.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.