Europeans are quarrelsome.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.