It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

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.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

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