the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.