Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

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

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.

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

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

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.