I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
All books are merely delayed dust.
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.