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.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
You can stroke people with words.
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
