Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!