I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Acquaintance — a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Real horror is when you see something familiar, but so changed that you hardly recognize it.