On A Plane You Can

When I Was Very Young And First Worked In Hollywood, The Films Had Bred In Me One Sole Ambition: To Get Away From Them; To Live Inthe Great World Outside Movies; To Meet People Who Created Their Own Situations Through Living Them; Who Ad-libbed Their Own Dialogue; Whose Jokes Were Not The Contrivance Of Some Gag Writer.

Tallulah [bankhead] Was The Foremost Naughty Girl Of Her Era But, In Those Days, "naughty" Meant Piquant, Whereas Values Have So Changed That Now, In The 1970s, It Generally Means Nauseating.

The Rarest Of All Things In American Life Is Charm. We Spend Billions Every Year Manufacturing Fake Charm That Goes Under The Heading Of Public Relations. Without It, America Would Be Grim Indeed.

I Was Making Love To A Man, A Man I Hardly Even Know. He Was Kissing The Face Off Me And I Was Kissing The Face Off Him. And I Found It Highly Satisfactory.

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.