One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.