They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.