She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.