Friends accept you the way you are.
Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.