I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

that voice was a deathless song.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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

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