My own rule is to let everything alone.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it--overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

You see I think everything's terrible anyhow. Everybody thinks so--the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Sophisticated--God, I'm sophisticated!

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all...

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.