I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

we dislike those we've injured.

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.

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

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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.