The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.