While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.