The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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 don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

There are no office hours for leaders.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

The biggest frontier opens up in front of us and rather than be afraid of it, we should go forward with courage.

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.