there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.