It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

that voice was a deathless song.