I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

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

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.