I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.