there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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.

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.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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..."

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.