I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

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 hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

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.