If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

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

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

Discussion in America means dissent.