Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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.

What writing means to me?-Releasing my wolves...(Natasa Alina Culea)

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.