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

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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.

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

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.

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

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.