And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on hi... - Dorothy Parker

"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."

"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]"

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

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

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