You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.