performance is an act of faith.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.