How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

Fear comes with middle age.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.