Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction..

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal..

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives..

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor..

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed..

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the….

the true and the plausible are rarely the same..

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it..

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 ….

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

... law is a substitute for love..

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….

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, ….

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience..

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

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..

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

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..

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..