Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

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.

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

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

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.