I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!