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

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

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

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.