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

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.