There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.