Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

Never confuse activity with action.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

A writer wastes nothing.