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.

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.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here.

You owe it to yourself to constantly experience the priceless feeling that comes with turning a great idea into reality.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.