He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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.

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.