Fairies: Nature’s attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: “We brought you here for your individuality but while you’re here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."

It [Hollywood] is, for example, such a slack soft place—even its pleasure lacking the fierceness of Provence—that withdrawal is practically a condition of safety.

I have never wished there was a God to call on—

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to practically neglect since early childhood.

Englishmen must have an island.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.