I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.