The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.