I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.