14 Quotes by Gary Inbinder

A place without secrets hardly seems the proper venue for a spymaster... Orlovsky chose to hold court in the demimonde, a milieu in which he seemed to proclaim his presence with characteristic audacity. However, M. Orlovsky was one of those camouflaged insects that blends into its surroundings and thus remains hidden in plain sight.

Life’s a jumble of farce and melodrama, the chaotic scribbling of a third-rate penny-a-liner. We mock it to keep from going mad – or at least to display our good taste.

I suppose longevity requires giving up life’s pleasures, one by one, until there’s nothing left.

Does technology illuminate reason, or is it the other way around?

You’re ambitious, Achille. You’ve become the chief of detectives in record time, and there’s talk you’ll be the prefect someday, or even a cabinet minister. You’ll have all the temptations of high office – honors, titles, bribes. As for your ‘improvements,’ see what people think of them when you try to change the world at their expense. You can make your own cross and climb your Calvary; in the end you’ll die and the world will go on as messed up as it was before.