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.

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

what you fear, you invite.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

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

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