Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

More Quotes by Mary McCarthy

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

We are the hero of our own story.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

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