Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.