Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

Theism is a philosophy of non-thinker.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.

I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.