Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

As we celebrate the evolution of the life of one so special, we embrace the meaning of life, itself.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.