what you fear, you invite.

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.

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.

... law is a substitute for love.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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

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