The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.