We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

I can't exist without books.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.