O God, make me good, but not yet.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

We are American at puberty. We die French.