The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.