There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.