Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

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.

Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

Awaiting to see the other side of the Coin, whatever it is, Accept it, because you Deserve it