Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

Art is a form of catharsis.

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

And where does she find them?

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.