An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

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

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.