My INTEREST in SOCIETY - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: PAINTING, tapestries, rare books, smart DRESSES, dances, gardens, country HOUSES, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Gore Vidal was a MAN of immense literary TALENT, some of which he USED well, some of which he wasted.

One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not ASKING for support. Asking can take COURAGE, but the REWARD is immense.

The one big, humongous, IMMENSE thing that we didn't CHANGE, that we didn't FIGURE out how to deal with is, if MEN and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

There's immense fun to be had as LONG as you can sort of sneak it PAST DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Books provide context and ALLOW you to think about things over time. Film is LIKE WRITING haiku; there is an IMMENSE amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to READ it in course, so that we may read EVERY DAY a portion of the OLD and a portion of the New Testament, GOING on where we previously left off.

Between Scott on the EARLIER SIDE and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense PRODUCTION of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some WOULD promote more than one of them to the first.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a WILLINGNESS to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on BAD GOVERNMENT acts DONE in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

When we can BEGIN to take our failures seriously, it MEANS we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of IMMENSE IMPORTANCE to learn to LAUGH at ourselves.

It is of IMMENSE IMPORTANCE to LEARN to LAUGH at ourselves.

I could not cherish LONDON and not VALUE JEWISH London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - POLITICALLY, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

The immense POPULARITY of American MOVIES abroad demonstrates that EUROPE is the unfinished NEGATIVE of which AMERICA is the proof.

We're just one ROCK SURROUNDED by this IMMENSE UNIVERSE.