Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?