Edith Wharton

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.