What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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.

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

In this way, you’ll live forever.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.