Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

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

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

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

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

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