Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.