Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.