It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

Say it, ” I gritted out.“The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.