If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

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

In violence, we forget who we are

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.