Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.