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

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.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

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.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.