...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.