It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.