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

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.

[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

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.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.