Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

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.

I had a dream about you last night.. You were in the amazon rain forest yipping like a dog.

She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you.

He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.