 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. |
| I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. Topics: Business |
| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
| Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. |
| If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. |
| A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. |
| What is art but a way of seeing? |
| No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. |
| In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. |
| When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. |
| Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. |
| She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. |
| I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. |
| A man is only as good as what he loves. |
| You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. |
| People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. |
| Conquered people tend to be witty. |
| A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. |
| There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. |
| With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. |
