There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.