Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

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.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

I wouldn't say Donald Trump is a champion for white America, I think he shares a lot of the issues and values of white America.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.