Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

Be so good they can't ignore you.

We can't always win the game

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Maybe Scotty the Potty turned into Scotty the Hottie. Have you thought about that?

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.