More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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.

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.