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.

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

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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