I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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.

In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.