Quotes

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior: the ape in man.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

In science, all facts - no matter how trivial or banal - enjoy democratic equality.

Life for the European is a career. For the American it is a hazard.

[on Lillian Hellman] Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.

[on Eugene O'Neill] He belongs to that group of American authors which includes Farrell and Dreiser, whose choice of vocation was a kind of triumphant catastrophe. None of these men possessed the slightest ear for the word, the sentence, the speech, the paragraph. What they produce is hard to praise or condemn. How is one to judge the great, logical symphony of a tone-deaf musician?