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

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.