the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive..

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born..

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist..

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future..

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas..

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting..

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard..

Violence is the instinctive response to fear..

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more..

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear..

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines..

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely ra….

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them..

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners..

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become….

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and ….

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim..

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive p….

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none..

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife..

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high..