Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.