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

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.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

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