Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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.

...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.