Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

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

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.