Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Her voice is full of money.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.