The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.