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.

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.

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 is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

Our approach and our vision ... is identical.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.