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His mind, magnificent as it was (for he had never doubted that fact) required stimulation from outside sources. He had never been of a philosophic cast of mind. There were times when he almost regretted that he had not taken to the study of theology instead of going into the police force in his early days. The number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle; it would be interesting to feel that that mattered and to argue passionately on the point with one’s colleagues.
"Give me problems, give me work."
“Hercule Poirot speaks,” he said, with a certain grandeur of manner designed to impress whoever was at the other end of the line.
I'll start answering my phone that way and see how long it takes my friends to abandon me.
“Yes, I am satisfied with my own opinions, but it would give me solace and support if someone whose opinion I respected agreed with them.”
“I am quite sure,” said Hercule Poirot. “When a thing arranges itself so, one realizes that it must be so, one only looks for reasons why it should not be so. If one does not find the reasons why it should not be so, then one is strengthened in one’s opinion.”
