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

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

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

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.