In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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.

...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

I do think that there's very little coverage of a lot of the people on Hillary Clinton's side that aren't - well, let's just start with Hillary Clinton, herself who lies for a living.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?