Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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 was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.