This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

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.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

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.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.