I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.