No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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.

One day, we will live in a world without salads. It is a dream I have.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.