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

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

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

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.