Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.