You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.

She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

I'll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?