"I have always been a great admirer of Miss Marple."

"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 enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened be…"

"If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything."

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."