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A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
A good way to vilify women is by attacking their sexuality.
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.