[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.