Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.