The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.