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

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.