It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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.

Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.