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

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

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

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

[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.

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

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.