Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.