Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.