What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.