The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)

Nobody knows anything.

There is no room in my body for anything but you.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.