If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

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 must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile.

Trust one who has gone through it.