[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.