Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

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.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

There is always a way forward if the responsible parties are willing to act.

Hope believes there are greater forces against you but that there’s a chance you might win out. Hope is wishing. Faith is knowing. The universe is listening.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

Love is a peculiar thing.

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.