[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

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

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.