I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

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

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.