Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

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.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?