Quotes from Helen McCloy

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.

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

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

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

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

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

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

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.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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

... law is a substitute for love.

He had the narrow face and long-legged, hipless figure that Victorian novelists called 'aristocratic'. Basil had seen the same leanness to often in the families of farmers and factory workers to believe that the human bone structure can be altered in a few generations by property and leisure.

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

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

what you fear, you invite.