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

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

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.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

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.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.