the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.