There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.