We'll open in Boston and stay there two weeks. Maybe they'll make us cut out some of the dirty stuff, but we can put it back in for New York.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

Men go to musicals. Women are the ones who buy the tickets for plays.

All those happy confusions of himself with God, those identifications with divinity and genius, and that supreme self-confidence-all of them were as lost as the smoke of Gettysburg, the tears of Gethsemane.

Most of your clean-cut types don't have any talent. When they get done washing their face in the morning that's about the end of their contribution.

An artist is his own fault.

George Gershwin died yesterday, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.