People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Work is the province of cattle.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Art is a form of catharsis.