Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.
There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.