A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

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 really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

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

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.