In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

- Mary McCarthy

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

- Mary McCarthy

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.

- Mary McCarthy

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

- Mary McCarthy

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

- Mary McCarthy