The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.