My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
I was too absorbed to be responsive
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.