Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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.

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.

A lot of acting is private time.

In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.