Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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.