A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.