To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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