I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.