I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.