"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good."

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

"To be a humorist, one must see the world out of focus."

"We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable' thinking stops and action becomes mindless."

"The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao."

"Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!"

"People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them."

"At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years."

"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."