If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

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

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

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

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.

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.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.