Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.