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

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

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.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.