Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want