If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Believing that your parents are always right.
Word - that invisible dagger.
In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.