Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

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

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.