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.

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

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

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. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

... law is a substitute for love.