Who said “It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”?

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”

“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

“Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”

“Art is a form of catharsis.”

“Work is the province of cattle.”