He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.