Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

Eating is a political act.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.