We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.