the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

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

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

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.

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

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.