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

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.

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

... law is a substitute for love.

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.