failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Fear comes with middle age.
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.