The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can be comfortable each and every day of your life.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.