The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.