Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.