The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.