Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with 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.

You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream

Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

No crime has been without a precedent.