Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
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.
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.