I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.