Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.