“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one’s true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm… and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.