Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.