A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

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

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.