I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

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 ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.

Make the best of what you have today.Today is the day.The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

All Thing Serve the Beam

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.