Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.