Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

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.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.