Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.