the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.