An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

He felt married to her, that was all.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...