“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

I hate writing, I love having written.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.

But I don’t give up; I forget why not.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

A girl’s best friend is her mutter.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Love makes everything easy.

Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she’s easy then what does that say about me?

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don’t want it if it’s that easy.

It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.