The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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.

An unhappy life is a wasted life.

You could achieve nothing with wondered mind! you need to stop it!

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.