"I hate writing, I love having written."

"The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back."

"Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?"

"I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you."

"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."

"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."

"Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

"Little WordsWhen you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf,Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds;And I can only stare, and shape my griefIn little words.I cannot conjure loveliness, to drownThe bitter woe that racks my cords apart.The weary pen that sets my sorrow downFeeds at my heart.There is no mercy in the shifting year,No beauty wraps me tenderly about.I turn to little words- so you, my dear,Can spell them out."

"A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse."

"One more drink and I'd have been under the host."

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed'."

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy."

"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair."

"Eternity is a ham and two people (also given as 'Eternity is two people and a ham') is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking."

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."

"I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again."

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid,You'll be the first it ever did."

"Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses."

"Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter."

"Tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!"

"Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

"I don't know,' she said. 'We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone."

"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."

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

"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."

"Scratch a lover and find a foe."

"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."

"She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go."