An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.