Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to practically neglect since early childhood.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."