Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

what you fear, you invite.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

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.

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