The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.