All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase – ‘I love you.’
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever.’
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Actually that’s my secret – I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Action is character.
A man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
