“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.”

“If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?”

“Now as I began to sort through his “effects” it occurred to me how little I had really known him … I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.”

“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.”

“Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.”

“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”