I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

It takes two to make an accident.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .