Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.