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.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.