Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

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

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.

[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.