All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

Human sympathy has its limits.

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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.