Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.