When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.