Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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.

I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

To mourn is not to fear

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?