Helen McCloy Quotes
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.
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.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
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 the hands of a clock.
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.
Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.
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.
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 old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.
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.
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
