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

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

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

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.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

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.