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

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

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

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

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.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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