When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.