There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

I love America, but I don't like it.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.