In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Fate keeps on happening.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I've always loved high style in low company.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

You can’t trust those damn Catholics.

Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.