No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.