Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Trapped like a trap in a trap