You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

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

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.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.