“ An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ These little grey cells. It is up to them. ”

“ Very few of us are what we seem. ”