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.

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.

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

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

On any given night, I can throw a shutout.

What you don't deal with rules your life.