You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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.

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.