He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.