Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.