To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Nobody really lives in the present.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.