I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to y...
The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely...
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the s...
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..
She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
It takes two to make an accident.
I'm a cynical idealist.
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.