Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

The world it changing very quickly and we can't wait another 50 years!