I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.