The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. - George Jean Nathan

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.