There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.