Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Life: another day, another dolor.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.