Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.