I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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.

Don't always cherish a past memory, Do something today, that you will never forget !!

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.