The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a …

All experiments in psychology are not of this [cargo cult] type, however. For example there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of mazes,…

My dad has hated me for as long as I can remember. That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds. It sounds petulant and really fantastic …

She knows that I've been doing something wrong, But she won't say anything.