The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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.

Don't die until you're dead.

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

Cousins are more then cousins, there best friends that are their through it all.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.