Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

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

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.