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

Art is the sex of the imagination.

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

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

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.

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.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.