“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.”

“What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

“The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don’t want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight.”

“How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.[author's dedication]”