A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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.

Perhaps scorpions were the only ones who could save each other. Whatever lay ahead, it would always be the two of us above the rest of the universe, and woe to any who dared step in out path.

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive.