If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

People living alone get used to loneliness.