The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
An only child is never twelve.
if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.