I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.