You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

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.

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Beauty is its own excuse.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.