Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.

You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.