You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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.

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

We can't have Donald Trump in the White House.