The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, …

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistak…

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imagine que la virginite pouvait etre une vertu.

Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.