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.

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 no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.