Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
Dorothy Parker[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.
Dorothy Parker...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.
Dorothy ParkerYou donโt want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I donโt want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Dorothy Parker