Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I remember things the way they should have been.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.