Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.