There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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.

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Its so funny whenever things come full circle.