Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.

Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes.

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

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I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.