Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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.

Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?

Writing can be a source of strength-Wang Liang

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.