You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.