A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.