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

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.

what you fear, you invite.

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.

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.

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

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.