marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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.

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those.