Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

- Robert E. Sherwood

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

- Robert E. Sherwood

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

- Robert E. Sherwood

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

- Robert E. Sherwood

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blas…

- Robert E. Sherwood

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

- Robert E. Sherwood

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poe…

- Robert E. Sherwood

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

- Robert E. Sherwood

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

- Robert E. Sherwood