There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.