With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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.

Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.