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

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

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.

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

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

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.