You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.

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.

It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God’s plan for you to be unhappy

Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.