[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

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

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

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.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.