Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.