Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.