Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

The emotional people...You tap into people's hearts.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Ability without honor has no value.