It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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.

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.

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

My one and only goal is to unite the world.

Genius is independent of situation.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.