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

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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

Books are a habit-forming drug.

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)