Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

The past is the father of the present.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.