I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

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

[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.