... law is a substitute for love.

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

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

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.

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.

... law is a substitute for love.

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