Agatha Christie

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. ”

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. ”

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. ”