If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

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

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

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

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