An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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.

Where Do You Show Up to Share What You Have to Offer?When You Love What You Do-You Share It Daily

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

I read poetry to save time.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths