“I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.”

“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”

“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”

“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”

“Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.”

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”

“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”