“I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”

“I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.”

“Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.”

“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”

“The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.”

“What are you doing, Poirot?""I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.”