"Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life."

"Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film."

"It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold…"

"People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean."

"Filmmaking has now reached the same stage as sex—it’s all technique and no feeling."

"Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that…"

"A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the …"

"Boston is one of the few American cities that regrets the past...Boston's like England. Up to its ears in yellowing p…"

"Russians have always been hugely concerned with ethics and hardly at all with conduct."

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."