Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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

... law is a substitute for love.

what you fear, you invite.

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

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

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