In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.