Oscar Levant on Oscar Levant:
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath
its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
on his fellow actresses:
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
—after Marilyn Monroe’s conversion to Judaism
on life:
So little time and so little to do…
It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.
the evening redness in the west 