I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

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

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

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.

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

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)