It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.