I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
Her voice is full of money.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Either one learns politeness at home or the world teaches it to you with a whip and you may get hurt in the process.
Don’t let the victor belong to the spoils.
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever.’
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.