That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.