God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Love between a man and woman is war.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

Necessity knows no rules.