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

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

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

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

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.

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.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.