Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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 takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

If you like yourself, other people will like you

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.