In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.