In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.