One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.

The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.

Sometimes confused that whether women loves a man...... In the history none of the female become made due to love.

I want my name to mean me.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.