There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.