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

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

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

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.