But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a fool among fools or a fool alone.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

"A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time."