But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
From Agatha Christie
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 of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Very few of us are what we seem.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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