Excellence does not require perfection.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.