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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

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

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.