Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills yo

Scratch a lover, find a foe

She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B

Brevity is the soul of lingerie

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.