There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

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

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

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

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.