In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

In anger, you look ten years older.

About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.