Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.