“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”

“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. ”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”