"If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect."

"I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."

"No one human being knows the full truth about another human being."

"In the midst of life, we are in death."

"The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can make you believe anything."