Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

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.

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

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.

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.