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.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.