Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.