An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
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.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.