"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood."

"Very few of us are what we seem."

"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…"

"I have always been a great admirer of Hercule Poirot."

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