... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.