When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.