Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.