Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

A gramme is better than a damn.

No social stability without individual stability.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.