Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.