Murder is a plant of slow growth.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

murder is not polite.

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

Learn, believe and achieve!

Even a whale is concealed by darkness.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

I love music, it's always been a big passion for me.