Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Action is character.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
You can stroke people with words.