Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

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

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.