I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any…”

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

“The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage f…”