Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.