Forgotten is forgiven.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

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.