What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

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.

You won't believe what I'm capable of, Phoenix.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it