A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.