I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
I like life. 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.
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.