[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.