The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.