The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

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

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

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

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.