Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.