The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.