Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

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

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

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