Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

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

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

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.

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