Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.