Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!