I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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.

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY THAT WE GREW APART

Just breathe and believe.

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.

Kippers : fish that like a lot of sleep.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.