I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.