Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

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.

I'll definitely never allow someone to spoil my positivity for their negativity.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Continuously give without recollecting and get without overlooking dependably.

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.