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

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

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

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.