Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.