Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.