"Ruth doesn't care about anything but her acting. She's so crazy to succeed, she cuts out everything else."
"Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing."
"It's all right if you have a comfortable income."
"That's all bunk. . . . Golly this is some cocktail. Herfy I think you're the only sensible person in this town. You have no ambitions."
"How do you know I havent?"
"But what can you do with success when you get it? You cant eat it or drink it. Of course I understand that people who havent enough money to feed their faces and all that should scurry round and get it. But success . . ."
"The trouble with me is I cant decide what I want most, so my motion is circular, helpless and confoundedly discouraging."
