Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.