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

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 not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.