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

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.

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

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

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

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

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.