I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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.

If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

Start small and dream big.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it