Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

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.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Everybody's got their troubles.