A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. - Christopher Isherwood

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.