I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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 perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

He died fighting for what he believed in.

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.