This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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.

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.