Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.