One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

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.

you have everything. still, you have nothing . sad .

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can't expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.