I'll take your Samuel Johnson,

... and raise you Dorothy Parker

When you see this, post a favourite Dorothy Parker quotation in your own journal.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.