In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.