The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

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

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

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

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Conflict is the very essence of life.