It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?