Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

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

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

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

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.

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

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.