It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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.

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

I can never get used to not having you around Nanay. I travel the world but I can't find anybody like you!

It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Carlos Ruiz has been there, done that. I've seen it firsthand. He's gotten huge hits off me before in the post-season. He's been there. He's calm. He's confident back there.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.