The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.