The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.