Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.