One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.