You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.