I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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.