I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Writing well is the best revenge.
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.