And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.