If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.- Agatha Christie
I have always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
I do not think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that is no reason not to give it.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he is in love with her.
