How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

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.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.