Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

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

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.

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

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.