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

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.

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

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.

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

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