Love means having something to betray.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.