Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.