I meddled in things that man must leave alone

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

God gives grace.

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death