"I write best when I'm drunk, and I write worst when I'm sober."

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. No, I left it in a bar."

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."