Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.