If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Time is the best killer.

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