It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.