Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

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

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.