Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Writing is the supreme solace.

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.