I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.