It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.