I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

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