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

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

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

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

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

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

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.