If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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.

Men didn't have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us.

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

They’re so brave, " she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that, " she said scornfully.

What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.