If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.