[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.