Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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 natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

Life is game. Never fear to play the game.

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.