the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.