A Clock Gable I knew I wasn't. |
A Letter From Camp. |
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage. |
After the Lincoln Hotel people showed their colors by demanding payment, we turned our back on them. We moved out. |
At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight. |
Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon. |
Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the psychiatrist was crazier than I was. |
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. |
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy. |
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper. |
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich. |
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either. |
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. |
In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed. |
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong! |