I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.