When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?