fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of 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.

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.

I don’t recall either of you asking me, you know I’m a lady and I need to be asked and agree to it.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

I move, therefore I am.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.