I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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.

Grace comes from God.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."