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.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.