Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.