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.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

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

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.