You love someone, you've got to let something go.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.