One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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've 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.
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.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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.
