“A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.”

“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”

“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.”

“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”

“The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

“I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.”

“Her nevroz, kişi için bir dindir ve din, insanoğlunun evrensel nevrozudur. Şu hiç şüphesiz doğru: Tanrı'ya atfettiğimiz özellikler ve güçler, önce bebekken ve sonra da küçük çocukken taşıdığımız korkuları ve dileklerimizi yansıtıyor.”