Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.