“Give me a hero and I'll give you a tragedy.”

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

“I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.”

“I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.”

“She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.“Is it like you felt toward me in Paris?”“I feel comfortable and happy when I’m with you. In Paris it was different. But you never know how you once felt. Do you?”

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

“Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.”