When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.