Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

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

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.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.