[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.