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

The happy ending is our national belief.

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.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.