I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?