Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

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.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.