Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.