But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.