They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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.

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep

Yesterday ended last night.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.