“Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.”
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”
“He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism...”
“Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.”
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”
“He's like everybody else in television. And Hollywood. And Broadway. He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism and that everything that runs into physical violence is a legitimate climax to something that isn't even-”