You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.