Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.