Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degres; Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocence Passer subitement a l'extreme licence.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.