Helen McCloy Quotes

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

Money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

The fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

The true and the plausible are rarely the same.

What you fear, you invite.

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them ...

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Law is a substitute for love.