It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

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