Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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 don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

The coward's weapon, poison.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.