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

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

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.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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.

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

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.