International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Reality is always so obstructive.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.