The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization it is an attack on all mankind.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.