I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.