But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. |
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. |
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. |
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. |
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've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. |
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. |
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. |
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. |
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. |
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. |
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. |
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. |
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. |
These little grey cells. It is up to them. |
Very few of us are what we seem. |
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. |
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. |