Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

"Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.