I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.