When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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.

We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

People think that if you're sexy you have no brains, and if you have brains you aren't in touch with your sexual side. I'm trying to tell people, 'You can have it both ways.'

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

I'm not actually an arrogant guy. It's just that, truthfully, nobody else can really compare to me.