Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

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

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

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.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.