[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.