Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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

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.

what you fear, you invite.

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.