The rottenness comes from within.

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.

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.