We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

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

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

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