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

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.