Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.