Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.