Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, the faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see anyother honest way of taking them.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.