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

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

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

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

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.