It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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.

When you say a man cry in front of another, then you should know that whatever has caused him that much sadness must be a tough one.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.