Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.