Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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.

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

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

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

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.