Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
Love is a dangerous angel.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
It's very hard to write humor.
Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.