Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.