In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.