Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. – Marlene Dietrich
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl. – Marlene Dietrich
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. – Marlene Dietrich
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)