You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.