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.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.