Ethel Merman

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.