But surely for everything you love you have to pay some 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.

The knowledge of God is beginning of all knowledge.

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

Electricity comes from other planets.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.