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

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

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

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.

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

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

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.