Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around.

The only way to fail is to quit.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets .

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener