Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.