Women and elephants never forget.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.