Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

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

[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.