Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.

Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.