Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

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

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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.

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.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.