What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.