If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.