The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.