Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...