You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher