Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.