[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.