Assumptions are dangerous things.

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.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

I'm definitely post-something.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.