God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.