At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

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.

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

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

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

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

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