The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

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.

Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.

I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.