This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

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.

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.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

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