The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.