A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

For every man there is a deep longing

Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

Wealthier is healthier.

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.