All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

I drink so the others become interesting.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.