The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

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.

I wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.

Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you.

You make me want to do things I’ve never done before. Never wanted to do before, ’ she whispered.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

The mind is just another muscle.