Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers…

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...

— Franz Kafka

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

— Hamish Bowles

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of…

— Marvin J. Ashton

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything.…

— Duncan Roy

A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million…

— Spiro T. Agnew

The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure…

— Jack Johnson

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named…

— George Sanders

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story…

— Charlie Brooker

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

“...but I was not very good at hiding my displeasure at mental sleepiness and mediocrity”

— Carlene Bauer

I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used…

— Judd Apatow

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and…

— William J. Brennan

It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest…

— Christopher Hitchens

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And…

— Jay Michaelson