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.

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

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

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

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.

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

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.