Everything you do in war is a crime in peace.

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is hal….

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness..

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction..

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share ….

... law is a substitute for love..

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator..

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all..

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere..

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, ….

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them..

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are..

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationaliz….

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there..

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them..

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like th….

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own..

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life..

what you fear, you invite..

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience..

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities..