Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

[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.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.