Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

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.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today

Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.