Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.