“Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.”

English author, detective fiction writer

Agatha Christie was an English author, best known for her detective fiction. She lived under the name Agatha Christie and became one of the most widely read writers of the 20th century. She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, including stories built around Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence, and Miss Marple. Her work is especially associated with mystery and detective writing, and she is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time.