A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

But it works that way if it works.

Your discovery determines what you are known for

I held her like tomorrow would not come. It stitched me, if only for a second...

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.